Hazel Blears
Hazel Anne Blears ( born May 14, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a British politician who is a member of the House of Commons since 1997, and among other things, Executive Chairman of the Labour Party and was Minister for Communities and Local Government.
Life
Career and member of Parliament,
After visiting the Eccles Sixth Form College and the Wardley Grammar School in Swinton, she studied at Trent Polytechic, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honors (BA Hons). After a subsequent postgraduate study of law at Chester College of Law in 1977, she took on a job as a solicitor, where she worked for the local councils of Salford, Manchester and Rossendale. In 1981, she was also secretary of a branch of the National and Local Government Officers Association, the association of national and local church workers.
Her political career began in 1984 as they themselves as a member of the City Council of Salford City, where she was employed until 1992. Having a candidate without success in the general election in 1987 in the constituency of Tatton, and at the general election in 1992 in the constituency of Bury South for a seat in the House of Commons, she was at the general election of 1 May 1997 in the constituency of Salford for the first time as a member of the House of Commons elected since then and heard this on. Most recently, she was re-elected at the general election on 6 May 2010 as a member of Parliament, and now represents the constituency of Salford and Eccles.
Within the Labour Party then took over many functions and was between 1997 and 1999 Member of the Executive Committee for North West England, 1997-2001 Member of the National Policy Forum, as well as between 1997 and 1998 of the campaign team of the party leadership. In addition, it was established in 1998 Parliamentary private secretary Alan Milburn, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health in 1999 and then Chief Secretary of the Treasury was. In addition, it was between 1998 and 2001 Coordinator for Development of the Labour Party and representative of Ian McCartney.
Rise to the Minister and the Executive Party Chairman
Between 2001 and 2003 she recorded her first post as " junior minister " when she was Parliamentary Under Secretary, Ministry of Health, where he was most recently responsible for the area of public health. In June 2003, was her appointment as Minister of State at the Home Office Home Office, where she was responsible first for crime reduction, police, community protection and the fight against terrorism, and then as Minister of State held the responsibility for police, security and community protection from June 2005 to May 2006. She is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party since 2003 Chairman of the Parliamentary campaign team and since 2004.
In May 2006, she followed Ian McCartney as Executive Chairman of the Labour Party ( Labour Party Chair ) and held that office until they are replaced by Harriet Harman in June 2007. During this time she was also Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office during the tenure of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Following the appointment of Blair's successor, Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, she was appointed by that on 28 June 2007 as Minister for Communities and Local Government ( Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ) in the Cabinet and was this in place of Ruth Kelly to its separation at by John Denham, on 10 June 2009. One of her first acts was to grant a building permit for the Falmer Stadium the club Brighton & Hove Albion.
In the general election on 6 May 2010, she was able to assert its mandate in the House, lost in her new constituency of Salford and Eccles but 17.5 percentage points from the 2005 election in the constituency of Salford one.
Since 2010, Hazel Blears is a member of the House Committee on Intelligence and Security as well as Chairman of the Social Action Forum of the Labour Party.